Red flasher
Panacea prola
The red flasher is a butterfly from the warm forests of Central and South America. The underside of its back wings is bright red with no markings at all.
Lives in
From Costa Rica to southern Brazil, especially in the hills of the Andes in eastern Peru
Wingspan
6.5 to 7.5 cm (2.6 to 3 in)
Can it hurt you?
Harmless
Harmless. It cannot bite or sting.
What does it eat?
Like other butterflies, it drinks its food through a long tongue that it can roll up, and its caterpillars eat plants.
How big is it?
How wide are its wings?
🧱wings as wide as 2.5 toy building bricks⚽could fly across a whole football pitch in 22 seconds
How big is Red flasher compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Red flasher about 17 km/h (11 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its wings measure 6.5 to 7.5 centimetres from tip to tip.
2
It is most common in the foothills of the Andes mountains in eastern Peru.
3
Scientists know four slightly different forms of it, living in Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador and the upper Amazon.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red flasher
?Where does the red flasher live?
From Costa Rica to southern Brazil, and it is most common in the hills of eastern Peru.
?Is the red flasher dangerous?
No. It is a harmless butterfly.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Panacea prola
- Group
- Butterflies
- Family
- Nymphalidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Lepidoptera > Nymphalidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Prola beauty
Where the facts come from
- Panacea prola (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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